David Zwirner Books

Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans

I–XXIV

Publisher: Jablonka Galerie, in collaboration with David Zwirner Books and Simon Lee Gallery

Artist(s): Sherrie Levine

Contributor(s): Kay Heymer

Designer: Kühle und Mozer

Printer: Kettler, Bonen

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in (24.1 x 31.8 cm)

Pages: 72

Reproductions: 24 b&w

Special Features:

Language: English

ISBN: 9783931354558

Retail: $45 | £30

Status:Available

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​Essay by Kay Heymer

Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans continues the artist’s questioning of traditional ideas of originality and authorship, developed over four decades, and her interest in the deconstruction of images and objects from the past in order to create new relationships with contemporary audiences today. Through repetition, duplication and restatement, this series not only re-examines the central and ongoing concerns of Levine’s artistic practice but also revisits one of the most prominent subjects of her oeuvre – the work of Walker Evans.

Publisher: Jablonka Galerie, in collaboration with David Zwirner Books and Simon Lee Gallery

Artist(s): Sherrie Levine

Contributor(s): Kay Heymer

Designer: Kühle und Mozer

Printer: Kettler, Bonen

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in (24.1 x 31.8 cm)

Pages: 72

Reproductions: 24 b&w

Special Features:

Language: English

ISBN: 9783931354558

Retail: $45 | £30

Status:Available

Stock:
In stock

Sherrie Levine

​Sherrie Levine’s work epitomizes many of the core tenets of postmodern art, incisively challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Since the late 1970s, she has created a singular and complex oeuvre using a variety of media, including photography, painting, and sculpture. Many of her works are explicitly appropriated from artworks within the modernist canon, while others are more general in their references, assimilating art historical interests and concerns rather than specific objects. Some of Levine’s earliest work was included in Pictures, an important exhibition at Artists Space in New York in 1977 curated by Douglas Crimp that came to define The Pictures Generation—a group of artists examining the structures of signification underlying any image.